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THE AJIGUS, SATUKDAY. APlilL 11. 1891.
Copyright, 1300.
A ileparture
from ordinary methods lias long
been adopted by the makers of. Dr.
Pierce's Golden" Medical Eiscovery.
They know what it can do and
they gitaranteQ it. Your money
is promptly returned, if k fails to
benefit or cure in all diseases arising
from torpid liver or impure blood.
Xo bettor terms could be sked for.
No better remedy can bo had.
Nothing else that claims to be a
blood-purifier is 6old in tl is way
because nothing else is like the
"G. M. D."
So positively certain is it in its
curative effects as to warrant its
makers in selling it, as they are do
ing, through druggists, on trial!
It's especially potent in curing
Tetter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Ery
sipelas, Uoils, Carbuncles, Soro
Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and
Enlarged Glands, Turr.ors and
Swellings. Great Eating Ulcers
rapidly heal under its Icnign in
flaence. World's Dispensary Med
ical Association, C03 Main 'Street,
UNACQUAINTED WTH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THIS C01 NTKY Will OBTHtS
I'USH VALUABLE INF0P.UATIOII FROM A 6TUCY OF THIS MAP OF THE
Cliicap, M Island & Pacific li;
The Direct Rout to and from Chicago. Joliet, Ottawa?
Peoria, La Snlle. Sloline, Kock Island, in ILLINOIS;
Davenport, Mtncalim-, Ottumwa, i isfcalocsa, Des
koines, w interset, Audubon, Ilnrlnr. and Council
JJiuirs, fn Idwa; Minneapolis and St. Iaul, In MIS
KESOTA; AVatertown and Sioux Falls. In DAKOTA
Cameron, St. Joseph and Kansas City, In MISSOURI j
m:iua, uncom, t airr.ury ana lielsoo. 1 1 NEBRASKA
Atchison, Leavenworth. Horton, Topeta, Hutchinson.
Wichita, Belleville, Abilene, Dodge Ci:y, Caldwell. In
KAsAs; Kingflsher, El Reno and Minco, In INDIAN
TERRITORY: Denver, Colorado Sprii es and Pueblo.
in COLORADO. Traverses new areas of rich farming
iii inuini lanas, anoruing tue best fa littles of Inter
communication to all towns and cities east and west-
northwest and southwest of Chicago and to Taciflc and
trans-O'jcauic seajtorts.
MAGNIFICENT
VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS
IVlWlIrir (til nmruf It am In -J a.
n ... . xvutuuia ju OflT-iKi- ( . i CTUllIUeilt,
between CHICAGO and DES MOIM-S. COUNCIL
X ' frro 1 . . . . . . .
rr ti UJIAIIA. Ma Deiwe-n CHICAGO and
DENVER. COLORADO SPRINGS anil TUECLO. via
KANSAS CITY and TOPEKA and vi i gT. JOSEPH".
Flint-Clan Dav Coaches, FREE RECLINING CHAIR
fiTiS .1 T. 1 r. . ... .
vvo. Kim i -aiuce Sleepers, wnii vim ig tar Service.
f IrW ronnorTif il at riunrai- nti.l rnlA.a 1- Cn.i
vsf(S au .-j iua ilu
diverging railway lines, now forming; the neir and
STANDARD GAUGE
TRANS-ROCKY MOUNTA1V ROUTE
Over which superbly-equipped trains run daily
TtiDArni T -r ...... ... . . . . ..... . .
u" "niiKii iiiaub to and from Salt
I-okeClty. oplon and San Franclsot. THE HOCK
ISLAND Is n!v the Direct and Favo-ite Line to and
from Manitou. Pike's Peak and all otl er sanitary and
scenic resortsaudcitiesand mining (list; icnin Colorado.
DAILY FAST EXPRESS TRAINS
from St. Joseph and Kansas City to and from all im
portant towns, cities and sections In Sot thern Nehraska,
.Kansas and the Indian Territory. Alo via ALBERT
LEA ROVTE from Kansas City and Chicago to Water
town, Sioux Falls. MINNEAPOLIS tnd ST. PAt'L,
connecting for all points north and nt rthwest between
tne lakes and the Pacific Coast.
For Tickets, Maps, Folders, or desired Information
apply to any Cnnnon Ticket Office In the United States
or Canada, or address
E. ST. JOHN, JOHN S EBASTI AN
Gen'l Manager, Gcnl Tk , i Pass. Agt,
CHICAGO. ILL.
optRa-ittc evt
lOOOJJileofoad
IN
IOWA,
MINNESOTA
AND
SOUTH DAKOTA
Solid Trains
BETWEEN
Chicago, Minneapolis ard St. Pau.
Via the Famous Albert Lea Route.
St. Louis. Minneapolis and St. Paul
Via St. Louis, Minneapolis (it. Paul Short Line.
AND
Through Sleepers and Chair Cars
BETWEEN
KANSAS CITY, MINNEAPOLIS AI D ST. PAUL,
PEORIA, CEDAR RAPIDS AND SIOUX FALLS, DAK.
CHICACO AND CEDAH RAPIDS
Via the Famous Albert Lea Route.
THE SHORT LINE
TO
SPIRIT LAK E JsT
The Oreat Iowa Summer Resort
For Railway and Hotel liatu, I"Tiptive
rainplili-ts and all i 1 1 f nil ml i hi. utidri'.vi
Geu'l Ticket anil I'ussentn r Aiieul.
Fon CHEAP HOMES
On line of this road In iortli western lona.
Southeastern Jliiinrsoia anil i mr.-u Ja:ota,
where drought ami crop Iallnre art- rmuiionn.
Thousands of choice acres of fcilid y-t unsold,
Local Kxciirsion rates Riven, h r full informar
tlon as to prices of land and rates of laic, address
tien'l Ticket and pjuwetnier Afrei t.
AU of the I'aswfnirer Trains on Divisions of
tliis ltallwav Hre heated by xtetun from the
eniKine. and tlie Main Line Iniv l'.msengerTrains
are liRlited with the Eleetrlc l.ipl t.
Maps, Time Tallies, Throii(:h li rtes and all ln
torniiition inrnishetl on applies ion to AirentK.
Tickets on sale over this route 1 1 all prominent
points in the Union, and by ltf Aifeuts, to all
parts of the united states ana utfiaoa.
For annoiuicenients of K cursion Bates.
and local matters of Interest, pit ue refer to the
tocai columns oi tuu paper. ,
i. J. IVCS. J. C. MANHCaAH,
Pret Genl San. G1 Tka. Pan. kglt.
CCOAR HAPIOS. IOWA.
WOMAN AND HOME. .
. BUSINESSLIKE WOMAN AND HER
VARIOUS ENTERPRISES.
New York's Free Art School The Woman
Who Flenses Teaching Repose of Man
ner Train the Sabe What an Ameri
can Girl Needs Qnick Decision.
A woman of business, a woman who can
run thintrs" like a man, is rare in the
world. Once in a while such a woman
comes to the front and she is regarded as a
cariosity.
I had a talk with one of these fascinating
curiosities, t Her name -is Mrs. Ixiretta J.
Beard. In a word, she is at the head of a
variety of schemes. She is a promoter, and
apparently an indefatigable one.
Ax first Mrs. Beard was disinclined to
say anything about herself personally,
fearing that she would be "written up" in
the style of some Rushing journals. When
she got start ed in her plans, however, I
saw that sue could talk for a year and a
day on her plans.
She was bora in Cuba, forty-sis years
ago. 1 he name of her father, who was a
Spaniard, was Joaquin Velasquez. Her
mother was a French woman. Mrs. Beard
is a typical, go ahead western woman, not
only in manner but in dress. She has two
accents, onethe normal western, the other,
when excited, the Spanish. She has a firm
mouth, pale face and remarkably keen
eves.
She has been over the greater part of the
world; has wandered over a considerable
portion of South America, with whose re
sources she says she is particularly well ac
o.uninted, and has done some literary work
for various pt-ricdicals, home and foreign.
Her husband, C olonel . Beard, is an
Englishman, many years in this country,
60 alio told me, who has seen some service
on the Indian frontier, but was never a
soldier.
According to the letters she showed me
Mrs. Beard has had an extensive acquaint
ance with public men, to whom she was
known as Mrs. J. Velasquez. Some of
these letters were from Senator Black
burn, of Kentucky; W. P. Hill, of Ohio;
the late Senator and ex-Judge L. Q. Larnar.
Senator Gordon, Senator Blair and several
congressmen and foreign officials. They
all appeared to be in nnswer to some re
quest, aud some were commendatory of
her business ability.
She told me she had given 8125,000 for
mines in South America, and that she was
the possessor of silver mines in Arizonit.
Mrs. Beard has a large numljer of "conces
sions' from Mexico and Honduras. One
is for a caual, another for a railway, an
other for a steamship company and so on.
One of her special enterprises is a mining
investment and trading company incor
porated in West Virginia. Xew York Her
ald. New York's Free Art School.
j use at mo iieginmng ot the historic
Bowery stands the big brown building de
dicate;! to science and art by Peter Cooper,
who has a monument in the heart of every
Xew Yorker, if no visible one in the city of
his benefactions. During the lifetime of
that good old man, there was no drawing
from tho nude done at Cooper Institute; he
had a very intelligible, old fashioned preiu
dice against it. Now, however, it has
fallen into line with the others and posses
ses that crowning glory of every art school.
a life class.
Unlike the League or the Academt".
Cooper is for women only, and the instruc
tion is free to all intending to make a pro
fession of art. Besides the usual studies it
has classes in retouching photographs, cra
yon portraits, wood engraving, remunera
tive if not artistic employments, and tho
normal class in which young women are
trained for teachers. This course only oc
cupies a year. To appreciate the results
that may be obtained in that short time
one mnst see t he fine work entered in com
petition for the prizes offered in this class.
such as designs for silk, for stained glass,
for wall paper, etc.
There is little discipline, little regularity
about art schools. Cooper alone has a
slight flavor of those qualities usually in
separable from the idea of a school. I do
not know whether to say because of this
fact or in spite of it Cooper is perhaps the
pleasantest place for a yonng girl to pursue
her studies. At the other schools no care
is exercised over the students in other than
school hours, and not much then. No re
munerative employment is furnished nor
advice given as to board or residence. The
students come and go as they please no
one takes nnynccount of them. If thev
come, the gain is theirs; if they stay awav,
it is theirown loss. It is taken for granted
that having chosen their career they will
seize every opportunity for progress in it
Isabel McTJougall in Demarest's.
The Woman Who Flenses.
"She knows just how to talk to all kinds
and conditions of men," was the recom
mendation given for a bright woman who
makes her living as much by her ability to
please as by her actual labors.
Seeing that woman afterward, and ob
serving her closely, one could not but be
impressed with the truth of what had been
said. She was gay with the gay, silent
when any one else wanted to talk, talka
tive with the shy, always good tempered,
never too animated, and never, never visi
bly in pain nor in tears. She was always
charming, bright, sympathetic and sweet.
She wa3 witty, too, but not terribly so.
She kept her wit to illumine conversation
and to lighten dull spirits, not to burn
hearts nor scorch sensitive feeling. Every
body went from her presence feeling com
fortable in spirit and with reasonably sat
isfied hearts.
She was a peacemaker and a courage
strengthener. There are two or three dozen
of such women in the world, und when you
find one she will tell you that it is almost
impossible for her to get an evening to her
self, because so many dear, kind friends are
apt to drop in of an evening. And she wu I
add: "I'm glad it's so, for I should not be
able to get through the day without the
prospect of these pleasant evenings. I wish
the davs might be all evenings with a time
table that never crept beyond the limits of
8 to 11 p. m." Xew York World.
Teaching Repose of Manner.
At one of the fashionable schools up
town a tri-weckly exercise for the boarding
pupils is an hour in which repose of man
ner is taught. I be future society leaders
are required to enter the small reception
room, which the girls flippantly term
"Manner Hall," one by one and pay their
respects to the professor of this rather pe
culiar branch of their education who
awaits their coming. Not a single nnnec
essary musclo of face, body or limb . is
brought into play.
With composed features, arms pendant,
one hand usually carrying a fan to keep it
gracefully and quietly placed, they -glide
across the room, aink into a chair andxarry
on a conversation with their preceptress.
Invitations to dance or promenade are ao-
POOR LO'S PAREJOAL AFFECTION.
Indian Chiefs Who Show the Deepest
LoTe for Their Children.
The Indian is generally not credited with
much regard or affection for his family,
but this impression was dispelled from my
mind during my trip to Pine Ridge. Of a
nnmoer ot friends I made among the In
dian chiefs, I will always remember Ameri
can Horse, a man of much prominence
among the friendly Sioux. When he
learned that I represented a newspap3r he
gave my hand a cordial shake and re
marked, "How cola, good." He had one
of his squaws with him, und through a
simple but beautiful sigu language in
formed her of my vocation, and she, too.
said, "How, good," and shook hands.
American Horse then brought out a young
pappoose of about 8 years of age, aau in
formed me that it was his youngest, and
then he patted the little one on the head
and gave it an affectionate squeeze.
In a joke I asked him what he would take
for the little Siouxvenir. He did riot first
understand whether I was in earnest or
joking, aad I was afraid I had offended the
old horse, but he shook his head, pointed
his finger toward a bunch of several hun
dred Indian ponies, then to a troop of cav
alry horses, stamped his foot upon trnr
earth and waved his hand about his head,
and I understood that not for all the horses
and ponies on earth would he part with his
child. He, however, did what he "6ould,
and cut an elk tooth ornament from the
little Sioux's dress and presented it to the
correspondent as a memento, and with a
grunt of satisfaction and another "How"
he took the little one by the hand and
walked away.
At the close of the Indian campaigr or
ISTtt the capt ive Chevennes and others were
taken to Fort Leavenworth to be trans
ferred to the Indian Territory. Capt. Edie,
of the hospital corps at Pine Ridge, was at
that time stationed at Port Leavenworth,
and related another instance of Indian af
fection and pride ifi their offspring. The
transfer to the Indian Territory was a ter
rible blow to the proud Cheyennes, and
was regarded as humiliating and degrading
in the extreme.
One of the noted chiefs of that tribe.
whose name has unfortunately slipped my
memory, was especially bending under the
imagined humiliation and made several
murderous attempts to escape. He had for
a squaw a member of another tribe, and
two boys were the result of the union.
Before the final transfer was made from
the fort to the territory the military con
cluded to separate the different tribes, and
while the Cheyenne hostiles were to be sent
to t he territory the others were to be re
turned to the north. This news was con
veyed to the Cheyenne chief, and the pros
pects that his sons should not share in his
disgrace gave him undisguised pleasure,
until he was informed that families would
not be separated and that they would have
to accompany him.
He grew morose and down hearted, and
one day he walked into the hospital, and
before any one was aware of his intentions
he had seized a pair of scissors and with
the point of it ripped a gash clear across
his abdomen from the left side to the right.
He expected to die, and said he wanted his
wife and children returned to their home
in the north, but his terrible self sacrifice
availed him nothing, for in spite of him
self he recovered, and with his family was
taken to the Indian Territory, where he
was lost to public notice. Omaha Bee.
The Joker Suffers by His Joking.
"Do you really think it injures a man to
be known as a joker?"
"It would bring him to failure in this
line of business," said the wholesale im
porter. "It would ruin him in our profes
sion," said the heavy lawyer. "It would
keep him out of our establishment," said
the head of a shipping firm. "It would
prevent him from getting any church,"
said the preacher. "It would destroy all
faith in his practical ability, ' said the dry
goods merchant. "It would not secure his
appointment by the board of education as
a teacher," said the pedagogue. "It would
never do in our line," said the manager of
a machine shop. "We could not give him
any responsible position," said the banker.
"We would not trust him here," said the
chief engineer. "It would not cause him
to lie trusted by big operators," said a Wall
street broker. "It would destroy his prac
tice among patients" said the doctor. "We
would be suspicious of his contracts," said
the contractor. "He would not be likely
to get promoted," said the policeman. "Not
if he was a real genuine original fresh
joker," said the joke editor of a jocular
weekly. "He could not wear my uniform,"
said the naval commander on his quarter
deck. "It would ruin him for our service,"
said the undertaker.
"So everybody is against us," groaned
the joker, after hearing these opinions,
"and yet I can get up a dime joke that
would make some of them sick." New
York Sun.
Funny Little Lisai-d.
Some of the lizards are funny little
chaps, and when you get used to them and
forget their reptilian appearance they are
pretty good company. The little fellows
about as long as your finger can be tamed
easily, and there is no end of fun in watch
ing their antics. The Greasers declare
that these lizards are venomous, but that
isn't true. Ijet a Greaser tell you it, and
everything that crawls poisonous. If
you can one- jet your ha.. upon a lizard
without frightening him he instantly
makes frietids wit h you. The way to work
it is to move your hand slowly toward the
little animal when he is lying motionless,
and touch him as lightly as a breath with
the tip of your finger. Nine times out of
ten he will not be there long enough for
you to know that you have touched him.
He is as quick as a flash of light, and
you can't see him go you only know that
he is gone. But one time he will let you
touch him, if you are gentle enough, and
then you lightly rub his back and he be
gins to wriggle his tail in delight. After
that be is your friend, and will take flies
from the end of your finger, run around
over your clothing and explore your
pockets, and when you eat he will climb
upon your leg, cock his bttle head on one
side and watch you with-friendly interest.
San Francisco Examiner.
Had Designs on Him.
Spectator (at the dime museum) So yon
were king, hey? What did you leave yonr
snap lor, t hen ?
Tattooed Man I found that the-natives
had designs on me.
Spectator Well, I wouldn't have mind
ed that. You could have put on yonr-shirt
and no one could have seen them nt all.
Jndge. -
The Hidden Tenon.
Belle (meeting ber friend on the street)
jh, dearest, jar. jje.JUslethread paid"you
tne loveliestompltment last -night. -
Nell Crip.He-htftrlV Tfenllir
Belle (sweetly) Yes, indeed; heAhopgb
your bon net too-wweet fon arrsfchimy Knid
it was quite the nicest thing &botrtyoTC-
west bnore. .
We have just
mi at
ISir-We invite everybody
At our old place
1nL -
iLyoyy
A general invitation is extended to the public to
call and inspect our stock.
We guarantee to give the Best Shoes for Least
Money of any shoe house in this part of the country
MEDICATED
COMPLEXION
ImDarta a 1-nUtaiu trnnrefwT t U akin. R.
I mores all DiiuDlea. I reck let and diaooloratkMu, Fur
I sale by all ant-etMdnuMrita.or mailed for M eta.
IOVJDER. tSs
TELEGRAPHY STSSSSTiSSn;
raUwey errioa. Beet school of Telegrajfiy on
earth. 100 your tamm armntod aow; eecd
loteaECBlate,
received the first ebipment of our
FOR TUB EARLY -
Spring" season of
to call and examine them.
robt. krause;
The Pioneer Clothier and Hatter,
115 and 117 West Second Street, DAVENPORT, IA.
of business, 1622 Second avenue
SPRING STYLES OF
s aiiii
CARSE
J. T. DIXOJST,
MERCHANT TAILOR;
And Dealer in Mens Fine Woolens.
1706 Second Avenue.
new stock of
1891.
& GO,
Rock Island, HI.
Shoes.
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